Puget Sound Recovery

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Puget Sound recovery focuses on the whole Puget Sound
ecosystem, including water quality, habitat, and the entire food chain from
plankton to people and orcas. Puget Sound recovery is managed at a watershed
scale through the collaboration of local organizations, local governments, and
tribes. Those collaborative bodies are called Local Integrating Organizations.
There are nine Local Integrating Organizations in the Puget Sound region and
two in Kitsap County:

​Both organizations:

Mobilize organizations to implement the recovery strategies, including policies, habitat protection and restoration projects, and public engagement.

Coordinate work with their local salmon recovery counterparts.

Each Local Integrating Organization at minimum consists of a technical working group and some form of board or executive decision-making committee. The charge of each Local Integrating Organization is to:

Make smart investments.

Make sure only the top priority projects are funded.

Combine science, local knowledge, and social values to guide projects.